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str[0]="D.-A. Atkinson. Palace Square. 1803-1805";
str[1]="The Junction of Nevsky Prospekt and Sadovaya Street. Aquatint. 1800s. The coner building on the left is the library.";
str[2]="Emperor Alexander I's Visit to the Public Library on 2 January 1812";
str[3]="Andrei Martynov. Nevsky Prospekt. 1820s";
str[4]="Vasily Sadovnikov. Panorama of Nevsky Prospekt. 1830-1835";
str[5]="The uniform of a fourth-grade civil servant. 1834";
str[6]="Stefan De Ladveze. Emperor Nicholas I's Visit to the Public Library. 1853";
str[7]="The Baron Korff Room. Half-tone from a photograph by F. Korobov";
str[8]="Peddlers on the Field of Mars. Photograph. 1895";
str[9]="The laying of the foundation stone for the reading hall designed by Yevgraf Vorotilov. Photograph by Karl Bulla. 1896";
str[10]="View of Nevsky Prospekt and the Admiralty. Photograph. 1910";
str[11]="View of Nevsky Prospekt from  Lejeune's restaurant. Photograph. 1910";
str[12]="The Reading Room. 1910s";
str[13]="The front of the library during the Siege of Leningrad";
str[14]="The members of the staff unloading firewood. 1943 ã.";
str[15]="The Round Hall of the Russian book stocks. 1955";
str[16]="The New Library Building on Moskovsky Prospekt";

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